Thyroid Boosters

The thyroid is responsible for helping control your body’s metabolism. An increase in thyroid problems in America has led to an increase in weight issues. Natural thyroid boosters can help improve thyroid functions, which, in turn, helps increase metabolism, making weight loss and weight maintenance easier. Below are seven natural ways to boost thyroid function.

Minimize Iodine Blockers in Your Diet
Not only should you eat iodine-rich food, but you should also limit how much goitrogens (i.e. iodine blockers) you eat. Some examples of goirtrogens include peanuts, soy and raw cruciferous vegetables including broccoli, turnips, kale, and cauliflower. It is important to cook these types of vegetables before eating them in large quantities to minimize goitrogen consumption.

Soy products are one of the worst goitrogen foods. This is partially because cooking does not destroy the goitrogen in soy products. Additionally, it is hard to avoid since soy s in about 70% of the foods you find in the grocery store in the form of soy oil, vegetable oil, texturized vegetable protein, soy flour, soy protein isolate, and more. Soy is often promoted as a health food, but it interferes with thyroid function and thus can cause weight gain. It is recommended to avoid processed soy products as much as you can, and to try to limit your soy consumption to minimal amounts of fermented soy like natural soy sauce, tempeh, and miso.

Minimize Consumption of Refined Foods & Vegetable Oils
Refined foods such as grains and sugars are bad for you in several ways: they put excess stress on the thyroid, which can lead to a poorly functioning thyroid; vegetable oils have been shown to fatten animals while also causing thyroid and other medical problems such as cancer. Thus, to best keep a healthy thyroid you should try to minimize how much vegetable oil you consume. This includes canola, corn, and soy oils. You will probably have to give up eating out or eating packaged foods almost entirely, as restaurants and packaged foods all tend to use some sort of vegetable oil.

Include Natural Iodine Sources in Your Diet
There are a variety of ways to include natural sources of iodine in your diet. Unrefined sea salts, kelp, bladder wreck, other seaweeds, eggs, butter, and most seafood contain iodine. When made properly, fish sauce can also be a good source of iodine. You can also get extra iodine in your diet by taking kelp or bladder wreck extracts, or by taking other herbal formulas including seaweeds or other herbs that are good for the thyroid gland.

Add Minerals & Vitamins that Promote Thyroid Function
Some minerals proven to promote good thyroid function include zinc, chromium, selenium, and manganese. You can get more thyroid supporting minerals into your diet naturally by taking a whole food-based greens supplement and/or a coral calcium supplement that has trace minerals such as zinc and selenium. Vitamin A is one of the best vitamins for promoting healthy thyroid function, and vitamins B, C, and E are also important. People with hypothyroid often cannot convert beta-carotene into vitamin A efficiently. Thus, it is important for them to consume actual vitamin A. However, synthetic vitamin A should be avoided, as it can be toxic at high levels.

Get More Exercise, Especially Rebounding
All kinds of exercise are good for your thyroid. Rebounding (trampoline and other similar exercises) can be particularly helpful, but all exercise stimulates thyroid gland secretion, which helps increase cell sensitivity to thyroid hormones. When you do not have the energy to exercise, you should consider adding coconut oil or good super foods to your diet to boost your energy levels.

Add Virgin Coconut Oil to Your Diet
Coconut oil possesses metabolism-stimulating properties and is capable of improving thyroid function. Those that have thyroid issues should consider adding coconut oil to their diet. Farmers have tried to use coconut oil to fatten up animals (in the same way as vegetable oils are used), and instead found that the animals became more active and leaner.

Stop Using Fluoride in Your Water and Toothpaste
In “The Coconut Diet,” Cherie Calboun mentions that there is increasing evidence showing that fluoride might impede normal thyroid function. If your tap water includes fluoride, you should consider using a water filter that takes the fluoride out. You can find out if it contains fluoride by checking with your water provider. About 50 percent of America’s tap water is fluoridated these days. You should also avoid fluoride toothpastes, as you end up ingesting some of it.

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